A COVID-19 E SEUS IMPACTOS NO SISTEMA PRISIONAL EM SERGIPE

Abstract

In view of the health crisis situation, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, within the framework of the capital crisis, it is necessary to explain how this scenario impacts the prison dynamics, with an emphasis on Sergipe's reality. The main objective of this article is to provide a reflective-critical process about the configuration of the prison system in Sergipe in times of pandemic, with a bibliographic review and documentary research, based on historical dialectical materialism, as a method of analysis. We identified how the precarious conditions of the prison system favor the expansion of the pandemic, exposing its inmates to the most varied violations of rights and situations of killings. Such impacts are most striking in the face of black and poor youth, who make up the majority of the prison population, a process that opens up the particularities of the dimension of structural racism, and of the project of socio-racial control. In addition, we demonstrate some of the measures used to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in this space, which, although important, are limited, given the whole chaotic scenario of Sergipe's prison. As we can see, these elements explain the fundamentals of the imprisonment measures and the forms of capitalist control mobilized in the face of the surplus of the workforce, and that in the context of a pandemic this condition is aggravated in prisons